Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0201741571 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 273 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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0201741571P06082004 . Each technique or strategy we have collected is written as a pattern—a form of knowledge management for capturing a recurring, successful practice. This book, the final product, does not simply reflect our ideas but includes those of many different people in many different organizations throughout the world. This book can thus become a reference after you have read the initial chapters. Rogers, Peter Senge, and many others. Change is hard. The patterns in this book are the result of years of documenting our obs
It contains a collection of eye-openers that is a treasure chest for pioneers of new organizational ideas, A fantastic toolbox for use in future missions!”—Lise B. It will help you avoid common pitfalls that doom many such projects and will show you a clear path to success. It's brutally tough to initiate, even harder to sustain. People resist it. I recommend that everyone read this book who has a vast interest in keeping his or her organization flexible and open for cultural change.”—Jutta Eckstein, Independent Consultant, Objects In Action Author of Agile Software Development in the Large48 Patterns for Driving and Sustaining Change in Your OrganizationChange. Mary Lynn and Linda have successfully used the pattern form to capture and present the recurring lessons of successful change efforts and have placed a powerful knowledge resource in the hands of their readers.”—Alan O'Callaghan, researcher, Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, United Kingdom“The most difficult part of absorbing patterns, or any technology, into an organization is overcoming the people issues. But without it, organizations lose their competitive edge. Best of all, they're easy to use—and they work!. This stuff is really cool—and really hot.”—Joseph Bergin,
One of those books where everything said seems pretty obvious, but by explicitly putting them together as S. Fraser One of those books where everything said seems pretty obvious, but by explicitly putting them together as patterns has materialized them in my head so that I can articulate them and thus notice and apply them. Interesting -- same thing can be said of the Design Patterns book, it wasn't that I hadn't used them before, but now I had a language to use around what I had already been doing, so that now I could notice it. A great help for introducing change Bas Vodde Fearless Change is a catalogue of patterns for introducing change in a company. Personally I've been in the role of change agent for years and this book provided me many "ah-hah"s which you get from reading good patterns. Most of the patterns I've applied in the past. Now I realized it and I got a name for them, which makes me more able to reuse the patterns. Some of the patterns were new to me and I've applied the. Good as introduction for new change agents For folks who are interested in driving change, or have been doing it without much mentorship, the patterns and examples presented here are a nice introduction to various tools. For those who are more experienced, there is some value in finding a common vocabulary around these techniques and it is a nice reminder of things that you may have internalized.
Mary Lynn Manns, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Management and Accountancy at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. from Arizona State University.. Her doctoral work focused on the introduction of patterns into organizations. Linda has worked in the telecommunications, avionics, and strategic weapons industries, and has extensive training